The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Oloyede has announced that only 25 per cent of candidates that sat for the 2018 UTME scored 200; that is, Only 414,696 candidates, out of the 1,603,181 that sat for matriculation examination scored above 200.
The registrar made the announcement on Tuesday during the policy meeting held at the newly inaugurated Bola Babalakin auditorium in Gbongan, Osun state.
The figure, he said, was against the 465,025 (27.00 per cent) of the 1, 606, 374 who scored above 200 in 2017.
The JAMB registrar added that 558, 673 candidates scored above 190; 739,490 above 180 and 956, 937 above 170 marks.
Meanwhile, the exam body has introduced a mobile app, JAMBMOBILE, to allow candidates to check their matriculation status after writing UTME and post-UTME.
JAMBMOBILE allows candidates to either accept or reject admission.
